Christine A. Corcos

Material in this bibliography was taken from Christine A. Corcos, An International Guide to Law and Literature Studies (Buffalo: William S. Hen, 2000).

Morse, Anita and Jean Bourguignon, Criminals in 19th and 20th Century American Law and Literature: An Essay and Annotated Bibliography, 79 Law Library Journal 639 (1987).

Werner, David R., Joint Images: An Annotated Bibliography of Prison Fiction (1990).

Selected General Works About American Literature

Faulkner, Howard, Homespun Justice: The Lynching in American Fiction, 22 South Dakota Review 104 (Winter 1984).

Flory, Claude Reherd, Economic Criticism in American Fiction, 1792-1900 (Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1935). Bibliography: 245-261.

Gruner, Mark Randall, Letters of Blood: Antislavery Fiction and the Problem of Unjust Law (Dissertation, University of California at Los Angeles, 1993).

Hendrickson, Roberta Makashay, The Civil Rights Movement in American Fiction: A Feminist Reading (Dissertation, Brandeis University, 1990).

Seay, Geraldine Hord, Passing: Color, Blood Lines, and the Law in American Literature Between 1847 and 1929 (Master's Thesis, Georgetown University, 1988). Includes bibliography.

Weixlmann, Joe, Culture Clash, Survival, and Trans-formation: A Study of Some Innovative Afro-American Novels of Detection, 38 Mississippi Quarterly 21 (Winter 1984/1985).

Selected Works About Southern Literature

Dew, Joanna, The Slavery Problem in Southern Fiction Prior to 1860 (Master's Thesis, Duke University, 1941).

Goldburst, William, The New Revenge Tragedy: Comparative Treatments of the Beauchamp Case, 22 The Southern Literary Journal 117 (Fall 1989).

Gossett, Louise Young, Violence in Recent Southern Fiction (Dissertation, Duke University, 1961).

Hyde, Samuel C., Jr., Backcountry Justice in the Piney-Woods South, in Plain Folk of the South Revisited 228 (Samuel C. Hyde Jr., ed.; 1997).

Langlois, Janet L., Belle Gunness, the Lady Bluebeard: Narrative Use of a Deviant Woman, in Women's Folklore 109 (Rosan A. Jordan and Susan J. Kalcik, eds. 1985) (Publications of the American Folklore Society; 8).

Langlois, Janet L., Belle Gunness, the Lady Bluebeard: Symbolic Inversion in Verbal Art and American Culture, 8 Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 617 (Summer 1983).

Leary, Lewis, Good News For the Devil: An Early Southern Admonitory Tale, 47 Southern Literary Journal 96 (Fall 1984).

Marquardt, Ronald G., Justice Tempered with Mirth: J. P. Stories from the South, 18 Mississippi Folklore Register 33 (Spring 1984).

Nelson, Richard, Aesthetic Frontiers: The Machiavellian Tradition and the Southern Imagination (1990).

Olds, Madelin Joan, The Rape Complex in the Postbellum South (Dissertation, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1989). Bibliography: 217-263.

Popham, J. N., The Southern Writer's Search For Truth and Justice, 19 Georgia Law Review 227 (1984).

Skaggs, Merrill Maguire, The Folk of Southern Fiction (1972).

Discusses lawyers and scenes involving lawyers and law in Southern fiction.

Watson, Ritchie Devon, The Cavalier in Virginia Fiction (1985) (Southern Literary Studies).

Watson, Ritchie Devon, Yeoman Versus Cavalier: The Old Southwest's Fictional Road to Rebellion (1993) (Southern Literary Studies).

Selected Works on African-American Literature

The Art of Slave Narrative: Original Essays in Criticism and Theory (John Sekora and Darwin T. Turner, eds. 1982) (An Essays in Literature Book).

Betts, The Confessions of Nat Turner and the Uses of Tragedy, 27 College Language Association Journal 419 (1984).

Campbell, Jane, Mythic Black Fiction: The Transformation of History (1989).

Caudill, Orley B., Strange Allies in a Changing World, 17 Mississippi Folklore Register 3 (Spring 1983).

David, John R., Frankie and Johnnie: The Trial of Frankie Baker, 6 Missouri Folklore Society Journal 1 (1984).

Davis, Mary Kemp, The Historical Slave Revolt and the Literary Imagination (Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1984).

De Vita, Alexis Brooks, Waking on the Road: Quests, Deities, and Tricksters in African American Storytelling, 18(1) Griot: Official Journal of the Southern Conference on Afro-American Studies 50 (Spring 1999).

Early, Gerald Lyn, A Servant of Servants Shall He Be: Paternalism and Millennialism in American Slavery Literature, 1850-1859 (Dissertation, Cornell University, 1982).

Estes, Ann Marie, The Southern Way: A Comparison of A Gathering of Old Men and Intruder in the Dust, 23(1) Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 33 (Spring 1997).

Fabricant, Daniel S., Thomas R. Gray and William Styron: Finally, a Critical Look at the 1831 Confessions of Nat Turner, 37 American Journal of Legal History 332 (1993).

Ferreira, Patricia J., "The Idea of Ancestry": The Influence of the Slave Narrative on The Color Purple (Master's Thesis, University of Vermont, 1988).

Foster, Frances Smith, Witnessing Slavery: The Development of Ante-Bellum Slave Narratives (1994) (Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography).

Harding, Vincent, You've Taken My Nat and Gone, in William Styron's Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond 17 (J. Clarke, ed. 1968).

Harris, Trudier, From Mammies To Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature (1982). Bibliography: 193-197.

Hedgepeth, Chester, Jr., Theories of Social Action in Black Literature (1986) (American University Studies. Series XIX, General Literature; 2). Bibliography: 151-154.

Henderson, Mae Gwendolyn, In Another Country: Afro-American Expatriate Novelists in France, 1946-1974 (Dissertation, Yale University, 1983).

Herrmann, Anne, Verlassene Orte, gefundene Stimmen: Schwarz-amerikanische Autorinnen, in Frauen--Literatur--Geschichte: Schreibended Frauen vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart 488 (Hiltrud Gnug and Renate Mohrmann, eds. 1985).

Judy, Ronald Trent, The Rhetorics of Vernacular Corpora: The African American Slave Narrative and the Challenge of Narrative Indeterminacy (Dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1990). Bibliography: leaves 413-421.

Karrer, Wolfgang, Integration or Separatism: The Social History of the Afro-American Dilemma after World War II, in The Afro-American Novel Since 1960 29 (Peter Bruck and Wolfgang Karrer, eds. 1982).

Kubitschek, Missy Dehn, Claiming the Heritage: African-American Women Novelists and History (1991).

Kubitschek, Missy Dehn, Subjugated Knowledge: Toward a Feminist Exploration of Rape in Afro-American Fiction, in Black Feminist Criticism and Critical Theory (Joe Weixlmann and Houston A. Baker, Jr., eds. 1988).

Maxwell, William, Sampling Authenticity: Rap Music, Postmodernism, and the Ideology of Black Crime, 14 Studies in Popular Culture 1 (1991).

Nichols, Charles Harold, A Study of the Slave Narrative (Dissertation, Brown University, 1948).

O'Neale, Sondra Ann, Jupiter Hammon and the Biblical Beginnings of African-American Literature (1993) (ATLA Monograph Series; 28).

Ogude, S. E., Genius in Bondage: A Study of the Origins of African Literature in English (1983).

Palmer, Louis Hooker III, Pathologized Subjects: Southern Gothic, White Trash, and the Discourse of 'Race' in the 1930's (Dissertation, Syracuse University, 1998).

Payne, James Robert, Afro-American Literature of the Spanish-American War, 10 MELUS 19 (Fall 1983).

Russell, Sandi, Render Me My Song: African-American Women Writers from Slavery to the Present (1992).

Slavery and the Literary Imagination (Deborah E. McDowell and Arnold Rampersad, eds. 1989) (Selected Papers From the English Institute, 1987: n.s.; 13).

Smith, Valerie, Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative (1987, repr. 1991).

Stacy, Stephanie D., African-American Women Writers and the Experience of Slavery (Bachelor's Thesis, Millsaps College, 1991).

Suggs, Jon-Christian, Epistemology and the Law in Four African American Fictions, 14 Legal Studies Forum 141 (1990).

Turner, Frederick William, Badmen, Black and White: The Continuity of American Folk Traditions (Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1965).

Waters, Carver Wendell, Voice in the Slave Narratives of Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, and Solomon Northrup (Dissertation, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1988).

William Styron's Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond (John Henrik Clarke, ed. 1968, repr. 1987).

McKenzie, Robert H., Law and Literature in Antebellum Alabama: Two Case Studies in Applying the Humanities to Public Policy, 22 Southern Studies 302 (Fall 1983).

Arkansas

Long, Martha Is Satan Alive and Well in Northeast Arkansas? 13 Mid-America Folklore 18 (Summer/Fall 1985).

Georgia

Turner, Patricia A., The Atlanta Child Murders: A Case Study of Folklore in the Black Community, in Creative Ethnicity: Symbols and Strategies of Contemporary Ethnic Life 75 (Stephen Stern, ed. 1991).

Kentucky

Rennick, Robert M., The Murder of Ellen and Jarvis Buck: Wayne County, Kentucky's Best Known Crime, 49 Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin (Murfreesboro TN) 82 (Summer 1983).

Louisiana

Allain, Maite, They Don't Even Talk Like Us: Cajun Violence in Film and Fiction, 23 Journal of Popular Culture 65 (Summer 1989).

Lake, Inez Holland, The Road From Pompey's Head: The Life and Work of Hamilton Basso (1999).

Maryland

Gordon, Deborah S., "Jug Jug To Dirty Ears": Maryland v. Craig Through a Literary Lens, 66 New York University Law Review 1404 (1991).

Mississippi

Cook, Bernard A., Ritual Abduction in Early Mississippi, 36 Mississippi Quarterly 72 (Winter 1982/1983).

North Carolina

Walser, Richard, No Longer Subliterary: North Carolina Whodunits and Science Fiction, 35 Carolina Comments 69 (May 1987).

Virginia

Beaudry, Mary C., Insult and Slander in Seventeenth-Century Virginia, 1 Folklore and Folklife in Virginia 42 (1979).

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